World’s biggest “passive house” office building
https://www.canarymedia.com/articles/carbon-free-buildings/boston-skyscraper-named-worlds-biggest-passive-house-officehttps://cleantechnica.com/2023/10/12/winthrop-center-in-boston-named-worlds-largest-passive-house/
DOE’s “Affordable Home Energy Shot” and other housing emissions reductions initiatives of the Biden administration
https://cleantechnica.com/2023/10/21/fossil-free-100-affordable-housing-can-mean-residents-have-no-utility-bills/
Cement and carbon black as a supercapacitor and a building material
https://www.popularmechanics.com/science/green-tech/a44716956/scientists-make-supercapacitor-out-of-cement/
hat tip Andrew Tobias
"Just over half of Europe's single family homes could technically be fully energy self-sufficient with a combination of solar energy and storage systems, according to a report by the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology"
https://www.cleanenergywire.org/news/half-europes-family-homes-could-be-energy-self-sufficient-solar-and-storage-report
Report (in German): https://www.kit.edu/kit/pi_2023_088_energiewende-energieautark-im-einfamilienhaus.php
Flood resistant homes from bamboo
https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-solutions/interactive/2023/flood-resistant-home-bamboo/
Use https://archive.ph/14gDa to get past the paywall
Editorial Comment: this is not necessarily net zero energy building but could be and could also be adapted to the rest of the world, urban and rural
All electric sustainable skyscraper in Brooklyn
https://cleantechnica.com/2024/01/24/a-sustainable-skyscraper-grows-in-brooklyn-thanks-to-alloy/
Geos net zero energy community in Colorado
https://www.canarymedia.com/articles/carbon-free-buildings/this-colorado-community-is-already-living-in-the-all-electric-future
hat tip to Jennifer Hill
Jennifer Hill also pointed me to
Kaupuni Village in Hawaii
https://g70.design/project/kaupuni-village/
https://www.nrel.gov/docs/fy12osti/53401.pdf
Living Zenith in Utah
https://livingzenith.com/
Red Fox Crossing in Wisconsin
https://www.probuilder.com/wisconsins-first-net-zero-community
Hillside East in Vermont
https://hillsidevt.com/energy-resiliency/
Building passively cooled schools in Burkina Faso
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/feb/29/we-dont-need-air-con-how-burkina-faso-builds-schools-that-stay-cool-in-40c-heat
